June 2011 Money Winners
Time to Get Off Our Collective Behinds
I used to be in decent shape. I worked out... I ran 10K races ~five times a year... I even did a few triathlons. And then I became an startup entrepreneur... and I quickly got out of shape. Our days are filled with meetings, airplanes, whiteboards... and of course lots of computer screen time. I [...]
Founder’s Domain Boot Camp
Every tech entrepreneur I know has a heap of domain names that have accreted over years and years of brain storms... followed by a bunch of $7.98 charges on the credit card. Now what? Most of them are probably relatively worthless... but maybe some aren't! How do you figure it out? What do you do [...]
The March Event Rocked…
... and once I get the final table winner's photos I'll post the full recap. Until then, thanks to our terrific sponsors! Christensen O'connor Cannon Commercial TechDwellers
Free Converse All Stars for the Winner
I know a guy who knows a guy at Dealometry and I talked him into giving away the Dealometry deal on Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars or free to the winner on Thursday.
March 24th is TechStars Night at Poker 2.0
The March 24th Poker 2.0 event is going to be a special treat because we'll have Andy Sack and Kayla Roarke from TechStars on hand to share details and answer questions about the Fall 2011 program. If you're already planning to apply for the Fall TechStars Seattle program then you probably already know that applications [...]
February 2011 Event Recap
It took WAY too long to get around to recapping the February event so please accept my apologies. Before I get to the recap, I want to th ank our very generous sponsors of the February event, TechDwellers, Blue Gecko, and Christensen O'connor Johnson Kindness. Each is a terrific supporter of the startup [...]
January 2011 Event Recap
Poker 2.0 got off to a great start in 2011! Special thanks to the event sponsors TechDwellers, Wilson Sonsini and WTIA. As always, the density of talented tech entrepreneurs was off the charts and fruitful relationships we're popping up left and right. The highlights for the January event were: Our featured startup, CoCollage [...]
The Business Lessons of Poker
Turns out Tony Hseih, rock star founder of Zappos and author of Delivering Happiness, is also an accomplished poker player. Thanks to Poker 2.0 regular Tyler Philipi for turning me on to an extraordinarily insightful post by Tony last May about the business lessons he learned from his study and practice of poker. [...]